“Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.”

“What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”

“New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels...”

“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myse...”

“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”